Sap-bucket



Patented Sept. 27, I898.

N0. 6ll,229.

D. R. BEARDSLEY.

SAP 8 U C K ET.

(Application' filed Jan. 8, 1898.)

(No Model.)

W/TNESSES NEE, STATES PATENT FFIGE.

DECKER R. BEARDSLEY, OF HUNTSBURG, OHIO.

SAP-BUCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,229, datedSeptember 27, 1898. Application filed January 8, 1895. Serial No. 666,004- (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that LDEOKER R. BEARDSLEY, a citizen of the United States,residing at Huntsburg,in the county of Geauga and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Sap-Buckets; and I dodeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to sap-buckets; and the object of the invention isto provide a sap bucket with a cover which is so secured that while itcan be tilted to empty the bucket it cannot be blown off or displaced bythe wind and will exclude rain, snow, and droppings of every kind fromwithout.

The invention therefore consists of a sapbucket having a cover adaptedto be swung open and shut and which is firmly secured in place whenclosed, all substantially as shown and described,and particularlypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of myimproved sap-bucket and a section of a tree and a sap-spout therein onwhich the bucket is hung. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of thebucketcomplete and enlarged as compared with Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a plan viewthereof. Fig. 4: is a sectional elevation of the bucket turned half-wayover as it would be to empty it of sap by swinging it on the sap-spoutand showing the lid or cover open as far as it will go for this or anyother purpose. Fig. 5 is a. perspective view of the bail alone.

In Fig. 1, A represents a section of a tree, and B a sap-spout of anysuitable kind and secured so firmly in the tree as to suspend thereonand support a sap-bucket when filled with sap.

O is a sap-bucket, which may be of any common or available kind and ofany desired size or pattern and made of any suitable material. As shown,the bucket has a hole 2 near its top, at oneside, through which it issuspended on the spout B.

D represents the cover or lid of the bucket, which is designed to havesufficient size to thoroughly cover the bucket over and leave more orless projection about its edge, so as to afford the most perfectprotection to the contents of the bucket and prevent bark from the treeor other loose or flying particles, as well as insects or other foreignand objectionable matter, coming into the accumulating sap. 6

But two things especially are deemed important to a perfect cover for asap-bucket. The first of these is that the cover should be so secured asto be fixed against lifting or lateraldisplacementwhen down, therebypreventing possibe displacement by wind or the like, and the secondessential is that the cover may open sufficiently when the bucket isswung on spoutBto emptyit of sap without ob structing or interferingwith this operation and either automatically swing out of the way or beeasily swung or tilted by hand. Then when the bucket drops back to itsproper position again the cover should automatically find its place. Tothese several ends I provide the cover with a bail E, constructed substantially as herein shown. This bailis preferably made of wire, and itscenter or middle is formed with a tongue 4, projecting back somedistance from its body portion 5 and pivotally secured to the cover'O,substantially as shown, or in any good mechanical way. The sides-7 ofthe bail are bent downward at right angles to the parallel crossportions 5 and pass through holes 8 in the cover, where the extremitiesof the bailare then bent inwardly at right angles, as indicated by 9,Fig. 5, to engage through holes 10 in the top and side of the bucket andthus secure the bail and the cover on the bucket. The bail being ofspring-wire a spring engagement is made with the bucket, and the holes 8are large enough to allow the said extremities 7 of the bail to besprung outward sufficiently to detach the bail and the cover togetherfrom the bucket. One or both ends of the bail maybe adaptable in thisway, so that the bail may be easily attached or detached but will remainsecurely in place until removed by hand.

The length of the right-angled portions 7 from the engaging portion 9 tothe shoulder 12 indicates the limit of movement outward of the cover 0,as seen in Fig. 4, and about the same limit occurs if the cover be swungin the opposite direction, as seen in dotted lines, Fig. 4:. It willalso be seen that when the cover is down and the bucket in its hangingposition it is impossible to displace the cover laterally in anydirection and that it cannot be thrown into inclined position until itis raised to the shoulders 12; but even then the bucket continues to besheltered from above, and unless the cover be held by hand in inclinedposition it Will automatically resume its place. In fact, the inventionprovides what may be called a perfect cover for sap-buckets and onewhich is attached or detached, as may be desired.

' that I claim is 1. In sap-buckets, a cover having a bail with sideportions passing through the cover and having a central tongue pivotallyconnected with the cover, substantially as described.

2. A sap-bucket and a cover therefor, and a bail to secure the cover onthe bucket having DECKER R. BEARDSLEY.

\Vitnesses:

MYRTIE E. THOMPSON, SIMEON D. TUCKER.

